YQL Geo Library and Introduction to Geo Hacking talk

I am right now in Atlanta, Georgia for the Georgia Tech University Hack and one of the hot technologies we want to have students hack on is geolocation. To this end, I have given a talk on geo hacking:

As a follow-up to the talk and to make it easier for students to build geo hacks rather than battling the different APIs, I’ve put together a small JavaScript library that fulfills a lot of geo hacking needs:

• Detecting the visitor’s location with the W3C geo API and with IP as a fallback
• Find geo location from text
• Find location from lat/lon pair
• Find locations in a certain web document (by URL)
• Get the location for a certain IP number

Check out the “YQL Geo Library demo page”:http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/yql-geo-library/ and “get the YQL Geo Library source on GitHub”:http://github.com/codepo8/YQL-Geo-Library.

Tags: geohacking, geolocation, geoplanet, ip location, javascript, library, placemaker, reverse geocoding, yql

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